31 public K-12 schools in Springfield from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Springfield has more public-school enrollment than 86% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Springfield's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
18 of Springfield's 31 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 5 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
Springfield's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 8th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 72nd percentile. The 64-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
Springfield school enrollment ranges from 135 students (lowest) to 1,308 students (highest), a spread of 1,173 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Springfield's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Iles Elem School | 56 |
| 2. | Benjamin Franklin Middle School | 39 |
| 3. | Lincoln Magnet School | 33 |
| 4. | Elizabeth Graham Elem School | 32 |
| 5. | Early Learning Center | 31 |
| 6. | Owen Marsh Elem School | 31 |
| 7. | Laketown Elem School | 31 |
| 8. | Washington Middle School | 30 |
| 9. | Edwin a Lee Elementary School | 30 |
| 10. | U S Grant Middle School | 29 |
| 11. | Feitshans Elem Sch | 28 |
| 12. | Jane Addams Elem School | 28 |
| 13. | Matheny-Withrow Elem Sch | 28 |
| 14. | Hazel Dell Elem School | 28 |
| 15. | Harvard Park Elem School | 27 |
| 16. | Enos Elem School | 27 |
| 17. | Mcclernand Elem School | 27 |
| 18. | Jefferson Middle School | 26 |
| 19. | Southern View Elem School | 26 |
| 20. | Lindsay School | 25 |
| 21. | Black Hawk Elem School | 25 |
| 22. | Wilcox Elem School | 24 |
| 23. | Springfield Southeast High Sch | 23 |
| 24. | Lanphier High School | 23 |
| 25. | Sandburg Elem School | 23 |
| 26. | Springfield Ball Charter School | 22 |
| 27. | Butler Elem School | 22 |
| 28. | Fairview Elem School | 22 |
| 29. | Dubois Elem School | 21 |
| 30. | Springfield High School | 20 |
| 31. | Ridgely Elem School | 19 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Iles Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Springfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Springfield has 31 public schools with a total enrollment of 13,014 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.6:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
